Air Fryer Mini Calzones Recipe

Are you planning for a family gathering? You will get your friends, family members talking about this gathering time for a long time with air fryer mini calzones recipes. Every bite of this delicious recipe is tender, crispy, warm, and delightful.

One of the best ways to use an air fryer is as a mini oven that won’t heat your entire kitchen for party snacks. Apart from being on your gathering party menu, they can also serve as an excellent home snack. You can produce batch after batch of wings, mozzarella sticks, and, yes, mini calzones that are hot, crispy, and deliciously nostalgic from a single air fryer.

These mini-calzones used to be prepared by pizza dough to make delicious pockets filled with sticky cheese, spicy tomato sauce, and spicy pepperoni that are perfect for parties, after school snacks, or to satisfy your craving for rolls of pizza from your youth. It should take about 30 minutes from start to finish. In the end, you will get a bit of finger-licking mini calzone.

Practical Information

• Quantity: 6 mini-calzones
• Preparation time: 30 min
• Cooking time: 5 min
• Level of difficulty: Easy 

What You Need (Ingredients)

• A pound of pizza dough; keep it at room temperature which is the best temperature
• Pizza Source
• A ball of mozzarella
•  Two chopped slices of pepperoni or mini pepperoni
• 20 cl of tomato sauce; you will also need for dipping
• Oil for frying
• Salt and pepper
• Some flour (all-purpose)
• Roller: To roll out the pizza dough

What to Do (Putting Them Together)

• Roll out Pizza slice dough on a lightly floured surface
• Cut the dough into circles by using a 3 inch round cutter of dough as much as you can.
• Roll each circle into a four 1/2-inch disc.
• Fill each disc with one teaspoon pizza sauce, 
• Add three sliced pepperoni.
• Add 1/2 tablespoon mozzarella cheese.
• Add a teaspoon of cheese.
• Fold over, secure edges by folding, and crimp with the tines of a fork.
• Fold the dough in half, one batter at a time.
• Put dough together, reroll and cut, so you make maximum use of the mixture.
• Use fork for further sealing
• Preheat an air fryer to 375 degrees F
• Air fryer calzones for about 8 to 10 minutes, once calzones should turn brown golden.
• Repeat with remaining calzones.
• If you desire, serve with a Pizza source.

How to Crimp a Calzone Properly

As our mini calzone recipe is ready, so it’s time to crimp a calzone properly. Make it half-moon like calzone by leaving one side filling with sauce—clip from the edges of the calzone by wet hands. Moreover, you can use a fork to crimp it properly.